Volume 10, Number 2—February 2004
THEME ISSUE
2004 SARS Edition
SARS Origins
Susceptibility of Pigs and Chickens to SARS Coronavirus
Table 3
Summary of RT-PCR results on chicken tissuesa
Chicken no. | dpi | Lung |
Trachea |
Heart |
Liver |
Spleen |
Kidney |
Jejunum |
|||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | BNI | N | BNI | N | BNI | N | BNI | N | BNI | N | BNI | N | BNI | ||
115 |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
118 |
7 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
114 |
13 |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
116 |
14 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
113 |
15 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
117 | 16 | + | - | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | + | + | - | - |
aRT-PCR, reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction; dpi, days postinfection; N, nucleocapsid.